Czar Alexander lll

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Czar Alexander lll
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Alexander lll

• Alexander was born at St. Petersburg, the second
  son of Tsar Alexander II by his wife Marie of
  Hesse -Darmstadt. In disposition, he bore little
  resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father,
  and still less to his refined, philosophic,
  sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning grand-uncle
  Alexander I, who coveted the title of "the first
  gentleman of Europe

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Betrothed by a princess

• Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to
  the throne, because he had an elder brother,
  Nicholas, who seemed of robust constitution. Even
  when this elder brother first showed symptoms of
  delicate health, the notion that he might die
  young was never seriously entertained Nicholas
  was betrothed to the charming princess Dagmar of
  Denmark

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The chief

• Alexander became heir apparent by the sudden
  death of his elder brother in 1865. It was then
  that he began to study the principles of law and
  administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev,
  who was then a professor of civil law at Moscow
  State University and who later (in 1880) became
  chief procurator of the Holy Synod.

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Married to a princess

• On his deathbed, Alexander's elder brother
  Nicholas is said to have expressed the wish that
  his affianced bride, Princess Dagmar of Denmark,
  should marry his successor. This wish was swiftly
  realized, when on 9 November 1866, Alexander wed
  the princess of Denmark. The union proved a most
  happy one and remained unclouded to the end

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• To many westerners he appeared crude and not
  overly intelligent. Queen Victoria commented that
  she thought him as "a sovereign whom she does not
  look upon as a gentlemen". Indeed, he was not
  educated or prepared in his youth to be Emperor.
  But what he lacked in style he more than made up
  for in his conviction of his position, his love
  for his country, and an understanding of the
  importance he could play in shaping his country's
  future.

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• He possessed such a strong will as to rule the
  Russian Empire as absolute autocrat, to the point
  where the Empire stabilized and prospered, thus
  allowing capitalism to begin to take root. During
  his reign the autocracy stabilized and dissent
  was forced underground. He worked to strengthen
  and modernize Russia's armed forces while
  avoiding armed conflict and improve Russia's
  standing as a world power.

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• Emperor Alexander and his Danish-born wife
  regularly spent their summers in their
  Langinkoski manor near Kotka on the Finnish
  coast, where their children were immersed in a
  Scandinavian lifestyle of relative modesty.
  Alexander III had six children of his marriage
  with Princess Dagmar of Denmark, later known as
  Marie Feodorovna

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• At the beginning of 1894 Alexander III was 49
  years old. It was believed that he had, barring
  assassination, many years left to his reign. As
  the year progressed, his health deteriorated at
  an alarming rate. The best doctors of the time
  were called to help, but none were able to save
  the dying Emperor. Alexander Alexandrovich
  Romanov, Tsar of all the Russia's, died of
  Nephritis on October 20, 1894 (OS) at the summer
  palace at Livadia in the Crimea. He was buried in
  the St. Peter Paul Cathedral in St Petersburg,
  the last Tsar be so. He left behind an incomplete
  legacy, his work unfinished, and an heir
  unprepared to rule

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• By Cadet Lopez ,J